Re: getting sound in Sid
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to
> > > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW
> > > packages will be installed [...]
> >
> > Perhaps your apt is installing recommended packages [...]
> I apologize for my ignorance.
C'mon, no need for that. That's what this list is for, after all. Glad
it was the right hunch :-)
> However, I mention a hiccup in case someone might find it of
> interest. The installation of pavucontrol said it would remove
> aptitude. I let it do that, figuring I could always recover it with
> apt-get. But as the result both apt-get and aptitude stopped
> working. When I try:
>
> $ aptitude -R install pulseaudio
> E: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
>
> I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has these two lines:
>
> package systemd: *systemd*
> Pin: origin ""\Pin-Priority: -1
>
> This looked suspicious and so removed the backslash and put
> "Pin-Priority: -1" on next line. Off hand, that seemed to have fixed the
> problem.
Yes, this looks strange indeed. Like an incomplete quoting which
shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Where did you get that from?
regards
- -- t
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